LIFT OFF | Vkook

Heaven?

V POV

We flew for an hour or so, just enough to get far enough from the foxes. We finally settled down in a cave JK found in the mountains. The cave seemed abandoned but there were many branches and leaves inside.

A family of birds must have nested here
before... well thanks to them we were able to sleep in a nice and cozy, warm "bed".

JK laid down first and I was quick to lie down next to him.

It was quite. Not an awkward silence but a calm silence. Until JK spoke up.

"V... I don't think Appa is a good person." He said.

Well he did keep me away from the outside world and send a bunch of foxes to capture us.

I hum in response.

"But he said he'll take us to heaven" I say remembering his words.

"V... heaven is where dead people go..."

JK POV

I regret saying that.

The look on V's face was horrifying. I just crushed his dreams and hopes with that one sentence. Tears started to stream down his face.

"S-so that means t-they... a-all my f-friends are d-dead?" He asks.

The tears couldn't stop falling. I'm so stupid. Why would I tell him that. I should have just kept it to myself. But... he needed to know otherwise it may be dangerous for him.

"They left us..." V says.

Knowing him for practically my whole life, I've seen and listened to him talk about his friends.

While we were in that lab we met or more like he befriended almost everyone. He treated each of his friends as his family. Knowing that he won't ever get to meet his friends again is the worst thing anybody could say to him.

I'm the worst...

V was sniffling as the endless tears kept falling. I rolled over to face him and pulled him into my embrace. I hate seeing him like this.

V hugged me back and just cried harder.

V crying made me wanna cry. But I couldn't. I haven't cried in the past and now I can't cry in the present. Tears just wouldn't come out. I wonder if it's an ability. An ability to show no emotion.

Eventually V cried his self to sleep. Soft snores could be heard and I can feel his warm breath on my neck.

"I promise I'll never let you cry again." I whisper into his ears.

On that day I swore to myself to never let V cry like that again.

The next morning.

It was morning. Sun rays beamed into the cave. I was the first one to wake up. V was on top of me still sleeping but I didn't mind. I just let him sleep after all he cried all night.

I began to think. What are we gonna do. We could just continue to fly around the mountains for the rest of our lives. But with the foxes out there, I'm not sure how safe it would be. Then there's the city... we would have to stay hidden. We won't be accepted in that world.

Although I do have one thing I want to do. I will seek my revenge against my so called parents. Now that I have all these powers getting revenge would be easy. The only problem is I would have to find them. Do they still live in the same run down house or did they use the money they got after selling me to buy a new house?

"But I would have to ask V first." I mumble to myself.

"Ask me what?" V asks awake staring at me with big eyes. "You were in deep thought I didn't wanna disturb you earlier." He said.

"Do you wanna go to the city or would you rather stay here in the mountains?" I ask him. I wouldn't leave V, never.

"The city? Wouldn't we be considered... I don't know, monsters?" He asks.

"Of course we would have to hide our identity while we are in the city but the thing is, I wanna seek revenge." I say truthfully.

"Against your parents right? Honestly I'm glad your parents sold you to the lab because otherwise we wouldn't have met!" He says and that got me thinking. How does he see the positive in everything? But he's right, without my parents hatred towards me I would have never met V. Although the abuse is enough for me to want revenge.

"I'll follow you, wherever you are I'll always be by your side" he said to me. "It's almost like a mission! A mission to seek revenge!" He cheers pumping his fist into the air.

"Then off to the city we go." I say standing at the edge of the mountain.

"Let's gooo here we come city" V said smiling as he stood next to me

We unfolded our wings and off we went.

"Hey JK, which way is the city?"